ScotRail Foundation

The ScotRail Foundation is a part of the ‘ScotRail in the Community’ initiative and aims to empower residents making a positive difference in their local community. The ScotRail Foundation can provide grants via the following funds.

The ScotRail Cultural and Arts Fund

We invite applications from groups or individuals across Scotland looking to fund arts, community recreation and/or sports activities and projects in the vicinity of a train station or with a travel or safety theme. The application must fit within at least one of the following themes to be eligible for funding:

The ScotRail Employee Charitable Giving Fund

ScotRail is connecting Scotland - delivering door-step to destination solutions and enhancing the connection between people and communities. As employers, they recognise the critical role that employees play in delivering that vision.

The £10,000 ScotRail Employee Charitable Support Fund contributes towards employee fundraising efforts for the causes that matter to them by matching fundraising up to £250. Matched funding will be available to support charities that:

Promote positive mental health and wellbeing; and/or

Target improvements in literacy, numeracy and health and wellbeing in primary schools; and/or

Aim to improve the community’s environmental impact at a local level, encourage recycling or upcycling, or run environmental information or outreach programmes; and/or

Work to help reduce the loss of biodiversity, or protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species; and/or